Last night Canadian software consultant and marijuana enthusiast William Harold Bradshaw, who writes under several pen names including Billy Budd, contacted me to tell me that he had discovered the secret behind the lost race of giants. Bradshaw’s previous work has involved developing a synthetic recipe for cocaine and promoting marijuana consumption. Bradshaw claims to have been a regular user of cannabis since 1969, and it is therefore unsurprising that Bradshaw has concluded that marijuana is the key to unlocking the secrets of ancient history.

Specifically, Bradshaw believes that the secret to understanding the Bible can be found by studying the Pink Kush strain of medical marijuana. This strain of the plant is more potent than other varieties because it contains extra chromosomes that result in a higher THC content. Another result of the plant’s extra chromosomes is an increase in its size. The Pink Kush strain of marijuana was developed by exposing cannabis to colchicine, a chemical found in a variety of orchid called the Autumn Crocus. This chemical is currently being studied as a treatment for cancer and is widely used in botany to induce polyploidy, or an increase in the number of paired chromosomes in the offspring of a plant so exposed. Bradshaw believes that colchicine also possesses mysterious powers that allow it to increase the number of chromosomes in the humans who use the plant, turning them into giants with four times the usual number of chromosomes (tetraploidy). This supposedly occurred when European (of course) women used the crocus to relieve labor pains but accidentally created a race of (white) super-humans. In reality, most embryos with tetraploidy are miscarried, and children who are born with four sets of chromosomes rarely live more than a few weeks. Nevertheless, for Bradshaw, the genetics that make plants robust must also work for humans, so these early crocus-giants were, of course, the supernatural creatures of the Bible with four sets of chromosomes, while those with just three sets were the demigods of legend:

God, Satan and Lucifer were tetraploid giants and implemented civilization upon Earth. They lived in the mountains e.g. Mount Hebron. Gilgamesh and Enkidu really existed and were triploid giants. They were referred to as Nephilim in the Bible with one parent being tetraploid and the other diploid.

According to Bradshaw, Mt. Hebron was itself “heaven,” and Satan was a tetraploid giant (Semjaza from the Book of Enoch) who tempted Eve with hallucinogenic mushrooms. He was later cast out into the valley below by the king of the giants, the giant named “God,” for lusting after non-tetraploid women. The offspring of the “fallen” tetraploid giants and regular old diploid human women was triploid giants, the Nephilim of Genesis 6:4. Bradshaw also believes that the “Sumerians were an advanced race of giants. They were also created using the Autumn Crocus plant... These giant gods then built megalithic structures around the globe and created civilization.” I’ll be damned why these “giants” seem to like building small doorways, tiny stairs, and miniature homes relative to their size. He explains the lack of current giants by adopting the ancient astronaut account of the Great Flood story, in its Sitchinite version, whereby the Sumerian pantheon are the main actors in world religion (Enki = Satan for Bradshaw). To this he adds the popular claim that the alleged rapid filling of the Black Sea was responsible for world flood myths—but with the Sitchin twist that it was a planned event. Bradshaw attempts to rehabilitate Sitchin by claiming that all of his material about the Anunnaki is correct but that these creatures were the result of tetraploidy and were not extraterrestrials. And just to sweeten the pot, he also claims that the Anunnaki gave civilization to the Jews but were “not Semitic” themselves. Instead, they came from Europe! But of course! Needless to say, these crocus-giants left no trace of themselves or their activities in the archaeological record; nevertheless, we are to believe they existed and ran the world as the result of super-genius abilities bestowed by their European mothers chewing a plant. Before running off to embrace Bradshaw’s Pink Kush advocacy, I think I’ll wait until he can find a source other than Wikipedia (his favorite) to demonstrate that the Anunnaki had any existence outside the human imagination, let alone mysteriously vanished gigantic tetraploid bodies.

Benny Shanon is a Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holder of the Mandel Chair in Cognition

Nothing to do with Giants.
Everything to do with religious origins

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666

12/9/2014 06:00:35 am

>>>Bradshaw believes that the secret to understanding the Bible can be found by studying the Pink Kush strain of medical marijuana

Some of us know more than him

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PAUL

6/26/2015 10:54:43 am

Are you serious? The book is amazing! He stumbled onto something that nobody would ever think of or spend the time to figure out. Life isn't what it seems and if you ACTUALLY read the book then you wouldn't be here talking shit!

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EP

12/9/2014 06:44:19 am

Usually the people who think that the Bible is all about (and/or based on) drugs are into mushrooms... Like this guy:

Clearly, Allegro at the time only knew about the Fly Agaric, and Wasson's book seemed exciting to him. But we cannot be too hard on Allegro, these were early days and there were very few others apart from Wasson conducting such researches.

There is a sober body of academic scholarship comprised of anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, environmentalists - among others - who take the subject matter of entheogens and shamanism seriously - that are divorced from conspiracy theories and fringe history - a subject matter that has arisen since the early 1960s.

Peter Furst's 1972 book "Flesh of the Gods" serves as a good introduction.

Peter T. Furst is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany and Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania of Archaeology and Anthropology and at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, N.M

EP

12/9/2014 06:47:33 am

Drugs are bad. Mmmmmmkay?

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olho

6/8/2015 07:19:00 am

i'll think twice before smoke again.
wasn't enough to be related with those tree-hugger hippies?

Thanks for the review, I think. I did not care about the (of course) I am not trying to be racist but merely document my theory based upon the forensic evidence. David Hatcher was accused of being racist but I believe that he was merely reflecting the facts. My theory is the only theory that actually works. There may have been other races of tetraploids as we may find out soon. The Negroes can make their own superior race if you like, I do not care. I just care about the truth. The Autumn Crocus is European mainly and the Old Hag figurines were found in Germany. Please note the real living female tetraploid in the book. They do not all abort. Please see the section on Giant Hornets for a parallel between polyploids in insects and humans. Please also note the tetraploid mammal compared with its diploid counterpart, bioth from a common ancestor,contained within the book. I am RIGHT...it is just a matter of time before I am proven correct. Yes, you can create your own giant if you are still a non-believer. Thanks Jason, critical but fair.

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EP

12/9/2014 06:54:57 am

I BELIEVE YOU! SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

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Not the Comte de Saint Germain

12/9/2014 07:31:38 am

Being serious for a moment, when Bradshaw refers to a "real living female tetraploid", I assume he's referring to the subject of this study:

http://ww2.biol.sc.edu/~awaldman/tetraploidy.pdf

The 2-year-old in the study had seriously delayed growth and development. That was twelve years ago, so her circumstances may have improved (or gotten worse), but she doesn't seem like a prime candidate to grow into a giant. And even if a tetraploid human can, on rare occasion, survive to adulthood, could he or she even produce children, let alone tetraploid ones? The notion that an entire race of tetraploid people could develop is pretty far-fetched, even when ignoring all the other claims.

EP

12/9/2014 07:33:34 am

Not to fault you for anything, but I have a phobia of deformities, just fyi. (Which fortunately doesn't extent to clealry fictional things. Like whatever Bradshaw is talking about.)

Shane Sullivan

12/9/2014 07:30:51 am

Are the mammals you're referring to by any chance the Plains Viscacha Rat? Because, to my knowledge, those aren't "giant" as compared with the diploid Mountain Viscacha Rat, so the species doesn't really set a precedent for enlarged polyploid mammals.

dude, i really think you should stop smoking weed.. It has affected your brain cells. Your book is bullshit, and you are just another racist drug addict trying to make sense of all the paranoia and bullshit that goes around you while you high.... get a life

Reminds me of that silly Shamans episode of AA where they tested the drug tar on people and found out they also saw the same visions, not because of some advanced alien directive, but because they were freaking high.

It should also be noted that the truth gets crazier in this book. The conspiracy theories, Illuminati and UFOs also come into this bizarre puzzle, of course (Jason's favourite term). I feel that I tie everything together quite nicely and wrap up many ancient mysteries. Not brag, just fact. One answer fits all...the truth is actually elegant as you will discover. The Tall Whites are Human Tetraploids and are the great deceivers and are still with us today. They are like Queen Bees to humans based upon their higher polyploidy level. They created civilization and their civilization is the same as ours as we based ours upon theirs. Read the Lord's Prayer, the clue is in there. The Bible is literal and God was just a tetraploid human. Too much to say here...

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EP

12/9/2014 07:42:48 am

I'm a triploid giant. According to my lady friends. Ifyouknowwhatimean.

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Diana

7/23/2015 02:29:31 pm

I see you would like to think you are special by poking fun at a serious subject.
Fear sometimes produces denial of the truth.

Brutal Brynhildr

1/3/2018 05:59:16 pm

I believe you, EP.
Its quite clear your blood isnt in your brains.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain

12/9/2014 08:07:23 am

The belief that "one answer fits all" is actually one of the biggest failings of conspiracy theories. History is driven by a staggeringly complex morass of conflicting agendas and individual motivations, and most conspiracy theorists reduce all that complexity to the string-pulling of a single bogeyman—a monolithic conspiracy or alien/giant race.

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Mandalore

12/9/2014 09:08:40 am

'The Bible is literal and God was just a tetraploid human.'

But the Bible says that God was a divine being, not a superior human. He is said to have created the Earth itself, not just a civilization. How can you say the Bible is literal but not take it literally? Confusing.

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EP

12/9/2014 09:18:34 am

I'm sorry, which part of "Bradshaw claims to have been a regular user of cannabis since 1969" do y'all not understand? :)

Not the Comte de Saint Germain

12/9/2014 09:27:53 am

I know there's no dislodging him from his views (plenty of conspiracy theorists achieve his same mindset without needing drugs), but I have a compulsion to pick it apart logically anyway.

To clear things up:Yes, I have been smoking pot since I was 13 as opposed to my old dead friends who were drinking for a long time, excuse me...short time. Who cares? Anybody who attempts to discredit someone on those terms, I believe, is not being objective in their criticism. Now moving on...

For Mandalore:
That god lied as do these modern Tall Whites. That is what they call themselves these days. God was a tetraploid and did not create the universe. How could he? There is no god or divine creator as far as I can tell. Nature plays with the dice (proven) and we are here based upon probability, the possibilities and the strife for life.

There is no spiritual war, it is a ideological war between a patriarchal society and a matriarchal society. Those "angels" and "gods" were all real people. It is literal. God is jealous, etc...literal. She was jealous. Lucifer is god BTW. Read the book for the answer.

EP

12/9/2014 10:26:59 am

This is what's playing in my head right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6WHBO_Qc-Q

Mandalore

12/9/2014 11:40:36 am

William Bradshaw: I think you need to look up the meaning of literal. If the Bible is literally true then God is divine. If you think that God lied and that the angels and gods were just mortals then you are not taking it literally. Your interpretations differ from what it actually says.

Unless you are using the new dictionary definition of literal to mean figurative. Because sadly that's a thing.

Sarah marshall

11/29/2016 04:08:47 am

I have trI'd to contact you through your pink cush website. My daughter who is 19 years old now born in 1997, is indeed a tetraplody. I was diagnosed when I was 26 weeks pregnant, she is a mosaic tetraplody. Theye explained how rare this was and told me they didn't expect her to live very long if at all, in fact they recommended I terminate the pregnancy, they told me she would be deformed and extremely retarded with abnormal features. I was horrified and terrified but they were wrong she is highly intelligent and even possesses psychic abilities. She looks normal she is nothe a giant she is 5ft 5. 13% of her cells at the time of her Birth were tetraplody. I hope you see this and if you do I hope you contact me sem0725@gmail.com

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Dagwood

10/5/2017 07:42:52 pm

Sorry, the bible isn't literal! So snakes can talk.? The book of revelation definitely isnt literal. Gnosis fits the bible. Of course the black lodges have corrupted the book with blood sacrifices. But the hidden symbolism is still there. For instance. If your eye be single then your whole body is filled with light. Thats the pineal gland. 33 vertebraes, 33 degrees in freemasonry, jesus crucified the energy at the 33 vertebrae or golgatha, which means hill of skull. Alchemy,sexual magic, or white tantra is the key. Along with meditation and transmutation of the kundalini. The kingdom of God is within you! Not out there somewhere. Gnosticteachings.org u must understand kabbalah and alchemy to rise above the animal mind. Very hard to deny the egos who torment the mind and body. Just my experience. Much respect.

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Kal

12/9/2014 07:57:46 am

If you have three of them, you'd be a mutant.

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Snarky

12/9/2014 02:16:52 pm

Three balls?

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Only Me

12/9/2014 08:02:24 am

From William Bradshaw:

"I am RIGHT...it is just a matter of time before I am proven correct."

"I feel that I tie everything together quite nicely and wrap up many ancient mysteries. Not brag, just fact. One answer fits all...the truth is actually elegant as you will discover."

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. -Benjamin Franklin

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EP

12/9/2014 08:11:10 am

Whoa... dude... that's like... what are we talking about, again?

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jeremey le

11/14/2015 02:03:11 am

hey my names jeremey ,,, i have studied this theory for a long time now and if you could get in touch with me id really appreciate it ,i have some new information that i think you might like very much !

i live in ontario canada,,,

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Sarah marshall

6/23/2017 11:11:47 pm

Why have you not contacted me I told you KY daughter is born a tetraploide

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EP

12/9/2014 09:55:06 am

Bradshaw is awesome. Jason isn't the only one to get contacted by him. Here is what he sent to Erich Von Daniken and Giorgio A. Tsoukalos:

"Ancient Astronaut Theory Solved:

"Standing upon the shoulders of Zecharia Sitchin, Erich Von Daniken and David Childress, I have now found the correct answer to the question about ancient aliens, gods, Anunnaki, Rephaim and Nephilim. I discovered that these beings were not aliens but were, in fact, genetically modified humans with doubled chromosomes (tetraploid humans). They were superior in size and intellect and lived much longer. They are the ones that created civilization through agriculture. My book, Secrets of the Pink Kush, explains everything.

"If you like, please have any scientist peer review my work or contact me directly especially if you are not familiar with botany, biology or genetics. I am quite sure that are very capable in these other disciplines and can understand my premise. This piece of the puzzle, the Autumn Crocus plant, would be almost impossible for anyone to connect to the aliens or gods but you will, I think, agree that my solution is correct and fits extremely well. My theory can be substantiated and/or proven by creating tetraploids (Rephaim class - such as God, Satan, Lucifer) and then even breeding triploids to reflect the Nephilim class."

(Source: Bradshaw's Facebook page, which also links to this blog post, apparently as validation of his claims.)

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DTG

12/9/2014 11:36:10 am

This argument sounds totally legit. I can see now flaws in it whatsoever.

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Uncle Ron

12/9/2014 12:54:14 pm

You are supposed to follow comments like that with the :) symbol. :)

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Dave Lewis

12/9/2014 02:20:40 pm

I think Mr. Bradshaw has come up with a very interesting basis for a novel.

No, sorry semantics. Secrets of the Pink Kush is not a novel as in fiction. It is non-fiction. Just wanted to make it clear where to find my book. I thought they did not know about the book. Truth is stranger than fiction, why would you want a novel? Everything is true to the best of my knowledge and everything can actually be proven. I believe in it sincerely and everyone who reads it acknowledges that it is strange and amazing but makes complete sense.

EP

12/9/2014 04:17:29 pm

You are wrong. There is nothing that is even remotely interesting in anything you say. Your ideas (and your chosen methods of presenting them) are indistinguishable from those of a (bland, conventional, textbook) delusional psychotic.

I'm not saying that you are one, necessarily. Only that you're acting like one. Consider that friendly advice to re-evaluate your life.

Only Me

12/9/2014 05:45:55 pm

"If you like, please have any scientist peer review my work or contact me directly especially if you are not familiar with botany, biology or genetics. I am quite sure that are very capable in these other disciplines and can understand my premise."

There is no premise. Evolutionary biology, in general, and evolvability, specifically, prove Bradshaw's "premise" is a fantasy.

We're expected to believe that ingestion of a certain plant led to a mutation, which created genetically superior humans. In accordance with evolution, these superior genes should have become preferred, through natural selection. As these supermen (and women) expanded, they should have spread their superior genes, generation by generation, globally.

This is the harsh reality: there are almost seven billion people on this planet, but humanity isn't at the stage where Captain America is the average citizen. If Bradshaw's "premise" had any merit, I want to know why humanity is still making do with the inferior diploid model. Where are the genetic supermen (and women)? Why did their superior genes die out, which contradicts evolution itself?

I guess your analysis would explain why there are only queen bees and no drones, worker bees, etc. Which is not true, just like your analysis. Study nature and learn the truth and stop being a shill for the status quo, it is not honourable.

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Only Me

12/10/2014 06:03:41 am

If you knew half as much as you pretend to know, I'd take your reply under advisement.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain

12/10/2014 06:04:48 am

But the normal human reproductive process doesn't shuffle chromosomes around the way bee reproduction does—we have no equivalent of the haplodiploid sex-determination system. If you argue that human reproduction can work with more than two copies of a chromosome, the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that it can.

Can you provide an example of a tetraploid human who survived to produce offspring? Were those offspring tetraploid or triploid? And were those offspring giants? If the answer to any one of those questions is no, then your claims fall flat, before we even get around to your idiosyncratic interpretation of ancient religion.

EP

12/10/2014 06:22:52 am

William Bradshaw is obvioulsy wrong. The only "Queen Bee" I know is Lil' Kim, and she certainly isn't white.

http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/e61ee67565aaef7f8270672657405a37/1239256.jpg

Clearly William Bradshaw is a racist :)

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HATER POLICE

6/26/2015 11:01:03 am

YEA LIL KIM IS A HOE :) BIGGIE BUSTED HIS NUT ALL OVER THAT. HAHAHA.. BUT WHAT DOES BEING RACIST HAVE TO DO WITH HIM SPEAKING THE TRUTH?

Yes, there are real scientific living examples and some are in the book. I am quite sure that the government would not let these people out, if they even let them survive especially with the new revelations from my Pink Kush Theory. Is this the real reason why doctors anxiously count fingers on newborns? You will note that the doctors, at that time, were unaware of how to take care of the child as they complained about extremely slow growth. Slow growth is quite normal for a tetraploid so there was nothing wrong with the girl. They did not know this fact. She needs her identity protected as there may be people who wish to either study her or do her great harm. I do not wish any harm to anybody due to something that I write, including the other pre-existing tetraploids who remain in hiding to avoid being killed off by us humans.

Trust me, I have done my homework on this matter and it was an accidental discovery, sorry if I offended anybody with this factual discovery. You will just have to learn to live with the truth, it will set you free, so they say.

It seems to me that there is not much point in this discussion any longer. This has become quite apparent from some of the veiled threats that I have received apparently emanating from this website. This just substantiates my previous reply regarding the veracity of this website.

I do not fear you as my work is done, the rest is for posterity. You will have to agree with me at some point in the future but maybe you already know the truth that I have uncovered and that is the real problem here. Best wishes to the people on this site who actually do seek the truth.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

- Billy Budd

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EP

12/10/2014 07:19:35 am

If you are so concerned about "veiled threats", real or (as is most likely the case) imaginary, then you should probably not publish your phone number online along with the wacko letter you wrote to a politician.

(Please don't crank call William Bradshaw, everyone. Not only would it be wrong, but it would almost certainly leave you depressed rather than entertained.)

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Only Me

12/10/2014 07:25:28 am

TRANSLATION

My book and "theory" are complete bullshit, and all of you know it, so... I'm going home. Before I do, I'll make some baseless accusations and assert I'm right--again. Please allow me a moment to bask in my glory.

I now depart with a famous quote, to further illustrate my genius.

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EP

12/10/2014 07:31:05 am

Betcha he's not going anywhere. I very much doubt anyone else is giving Ol' Billy here as much attention as this blog, judging by the fact that he hasn't bragged on his Facebook page about anyone else taking notice.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain

12/10/2014 08:59:25 am

Just to dissect a little more specifically:

He vaguely indicates that he's responding to my questions about tetraploid people, but rather than giving examples of tetraploid people who have produced offspring, he uses the furtive fallacy to "explain" why such people aren't more visible. If you can't find evidence for something, blame the government!

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Only Me

12/10/2014 11:13:34 am

Par for the course, NtCdSG. Just look at Bradshaw's first reply. He openly admits, twice, that his "theory" is a bust. Specifically:

"The Negroes can make their own superior race if you like, I do not care."

and,

"Yes, you can create your own giant if you are still a non-believer."

Why "make" or "create" genetically superior giants--based on race or belief--if they existed, and still exist, as he claims?

Equally amazing, is how he knows seemingly everything about a people "who remain in hiding to avoid being killed off by us humans." This sounds suspiciously like the reason Ancient Aliens gave as to why Sasquatch is so elusive.

EP

12/10/2014 12:06:46 pm

Guys, honestly, why do you bother dissecting Bradshaw? His stuff is so obscure and so terrible that it has no chance of becoming a public menace a la the H/H2 crowd. He also isn't exhibiting capacity to process criticism or respond to it effectively. And it's not even that funny, especially in light of his life history. Psychiatrists I know have volumes and volumes of case histories with stuff like his Pink Kush - it really shouldn't be treated any differently imo.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain

12/10/2014 01:36:56 pm

I don't know. Maybe it's just to practice my reasoning skills on an easy target. Maybe it's to avoid the impression, which occasional visitors to this site have come away with, that Jason's comments-section regulars reflexively blow raspberries at anyone Jason disagrees with. A lot of the visitors who complain are fringe-theory true believers, certainly, but I doubt all of them are.

Claiming a fantasy work of this magnitude is somehow 'non fiction' is like claiming to be a super human being after eating psychotropic flowers. Good luck with that. Conspiracy theory is fiction.Fringe is fiction. it's fun to contemplate weird theories, but just because they have theories doesn't make them experts and certainly not scientists. What you have here is science fantasy fiction, historical fantasy, and ancient fantasy.

The Bible does not mention ingesting this flower made God and angels out of Man.

Unproven theory and unproven fantasy are different. We may not be able to see a black hole directly, for instance, but we can detect the influence it has on gravity and stars nearby.

Unprovable theory, like space aliens, can only be proven when aliens physically land and come see us. We can speculate all we like.

Tetrapoid giants is an unproven as bigfoot, actually less so, as at least Bigfoot believers seem to think they saw something in the woods. Except for this book, this type of giant is unheard of, or nearly so.

Now I shall return to the reading of the Lotus Eaters once again...

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EP

12/10/2014 07:34:31 am

Well.. If a theory really is unprovable, then it cannot be proven at all... :P

Sir Bradshaw, for real ? Man I want some of what your smoking! My brain quivers in anticipation... Just joking last time i was stoned was 1/10/2008. Shucks if I smoked some of that hi powered stuff (hi THC)+(hi plus THC, snort giggles) you could butter my butt and call me a biscuit! hehehe

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larry

12/10/2016 03:45:46 pm

So no one can disprove Bradshaw. Much rhetoric. Wow. So which one of u can build a pyramid. No one? Hmm guess they don't exist. Stone henge fable, like incas n myans. Yall think we are more intelligent now. Ha ha ha ha. Pride

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El chink

6/12/2017 08:02:08 am

Can any of you land on the moon? By your logic, we never have, then. Surely, someone can or could. But, for the majority of us... no. We give up til someone finds a way to go smarter, not harder.

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